Of course, this is infinitely more feasible than Musk's hyperloop because a) it's a real fucking train, and b) China is the world leader in HSR. This thing loops sexy.
so i keep an eye on chinese trainwatching talk and the speculation is that the ccp wants to put this in a shanghai to beijing route, they tend to like doing this with their highest speed trains, though there might be significant resource costs that make this infeasible, we'll see soon because the ccp moves fast
:che-poggers: Makes sense, it's one of (maybe the most) heavily trafficked route, so making it faster and sleeker is always good! How does one, uh, join you in keeping an eye on this Chinese trainwatching talk?
EDIT: This might be motivated by the CPC beating Japan to the punch, who's planning to roll out their super fast maglev train on a route between Tokyo and Osaka (see this post I made a while back)
ill try to find the link, they were talking about this thing a couple months back. it was on weibo i think
Just another reason for me to learn Chinese it looks like
i just use google translate lmao but yeah its hard to find links to things if you dont know the chinese words for stuff
ahh i made a post on it but for whatever reason chacha doesnt want to load my history ;-; look for a chinese planned rail map i posted i linked the forum in the comments somewhere
God damn do you have a lot of posts lol. I remember that map though! I'll see if I can find it.
still extremely skeptical about the vacuum part
I don't see how the gains from eliminating drag outweigh how labor and resource intensive it is to build and maintain large vacuum chambers
like, how do you even make a vacuum chamber with expansion joints?
You don't actually need to hold a perfect vacuum, you could get massive drag reduction by just reducing the atmospheric pressure by some amount. Just regular having a massive metal tube sitting at 0 psi with a high speed object traveling through it is like building a multiple mile long bomb. Sitting at 12 or 10 psi would still give a speed boost, but rapid depressurizing wouldn't be as catastrophic. You could also do that with a lot less infrastructure
Yeah I don't think the vacuum tube thing is a realistic idea in the near future. I imagine it's mentioned in this video more as a "fuck you build trains" bit than anything substantial. I mean the engineers are clearly treating it that way, considering they're just building a real train first, and then might move on to the hyperloop stuff.
Yeah but if daddy musk attaches all of the model X's together in his hyperloop they can probably go that fast. Checkmate lefties
